Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
Episodes
Musical Improvisation and Free Association with Rafael Ornstein, MD
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Patients may be bringing in harmonies that are tough to connect, fragments of life or things that cannot be integrated. And part of the improvisation...
The Eyes, The Drives, and Culture with Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm interested in with what mind and what imagination and thoughts and association one person lives her life. That's the common thread in all three n...
Addictive Pornography: Psychoanalytic Considerations with Claudia Spadazzi, MD and Jose Zusman, MD
06 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"We are all dependent and potentially addicted as well. We regularly use addictive objects whenever we are confronted with a circumstance that brings...
Trauma and the Capacity for Gratitude with Heinz Weiss, MD (Stuttgart)
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The acknowledgment of guilt it's a prerequisite for reparation. There is no reparation without the acknowledgment of guilt and guilt arises when lov...
Extendiendo los Horizontes del Psicoanálisis Hacia lo Social y lo Comunitario con Heli Morales, PhD (Ciudad de México)
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"La gran propuesta que queremos avanzar a la sociedad civil, a la comunidad, es la posibilidad de que el psicoanálisis tenga un lugar...
'Splitting' in Our Political and Social Discourse: Psychoanalytic Considerations with Ronald Doctor, MD (London)
12 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"In conflict, especially in war when we have massive conflict, each side believes that truth and right are on their side. It is very difficult to re...
An Elder Shares his Legacy with Gilbert Kliman, MD
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The students are fascinated to see that someone who ordinarily they know behind the couch can be on the stand and try to influence social justice, ...
Meet the IPA's New President: Harriet Wolfe, MD
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"A large group [of analysts] sitting in the circular Tavistock manner talked about their reactions to the state of the world. It wasn't just ...
Off the Couch and into the Political Arena with John, Lord Alderdice FRCPsych (Oxford)
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"I decided I would try to understand things psychologically because it seemed to me that the current wisdom that people were acting as rational ac...
Why Do We Read Books? Literature and Psychoanalysis with Merav Roth, Ph.D.
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"I jump into a book - we take a book into our hands, and I become everybody, everywhere in every era. I become Emma Bovary - it is a very famous...
The 4th Wall and the Movable Analytic Frame with Isacc Tylim, PsyD
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The frame begins to cry - something gets broken in the analytic session. What do we do then? We interpret just based on early material, what we know...
Presidential Reflections on Psychoanalysis with Virginia Ungar, MD (Buenos Aires)
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"First, when we started to work online, it was exhausting. Now, I cannot say it is exhausting at the same level but it is still exhausting. You fe...